Re: does anyone find it ironic that smartlist mailing list is using Mailman?

Yes, paritcularly when all that was needed was a trivial change to the list config. I see this as a sign of the times. The 3rd gen list managers, developed before the rise of the WWW, are slowly being displaced by the 4th gen list managers that provide integrated WWW interfaces to list managment for the list manager, list supscription management to the user, and WWW-accessible archives for everyone. Both SmartList and Majordomo have add-ons that provide this but the 4G list managers have them as a part of the core.